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title: She was the creature of fairest form, of loveliest aspect, and of ge… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was the creature of fairest form, of loveliest aspect, and of gentlest nature that existed between earth and heaven in all Ireland--whatever colour of hue she had before, there was nobody that looked into her face but she would blush fiery red over it. Who acts: company, gentlest nature, nobody.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 24

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She was the creature of fairest form, of loveliest aspect, and of gentlest nature that existed between earth and heaven in all Ireland--whatever colour of hue she had before, there was nobody that looked into her face but she would blush fiery red over it.

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**Who acts:** company, gentlest nature, nobody · **What happens:** be, exist, have, look, blush · **To what, where:** creature, Ireland, colour, red

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, gentlest nature, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:13:24
# text = She was the creature of fairest form, of loveliest aspect, and of gentlest nature that existed between earth and heaven in all Ireland--whatever colour of hue she had before, there was nobody that looked into her face but she would blush fiery red over it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det	_	_
28	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	blush	blush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
47	fiery	fiery	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obj	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | company | the creature and loveliest aspect and whatever colour of hue |  |  |  | of fairest form | tree rules |
| 2 | **exist** | past | gentlest nature |  |  | all Ireland |  | between earth and heaven | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between earth=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | company | whatever colour of hue *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | past | nobody |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into company's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 6 | **blush** | would | company | red |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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